Word: tankfuls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...freighter. On the way Chakiris and Widmark sleep at the stick for as long as 20 minutes, while the customers fossick through expository flashbacks. No sweat, however. Everybody can plainly see that the search plane is parked on a sound stage and the Japanese are floundering in the studio tank. In this film it is the moviemakers who are really...
Lowered Minaret. The well-organized mob soon routed the police and drove back the first troop detachments with fire from barricades, rooftops and minarets. Reinforcements were rushed in. Strongman Hafez left his huge marble office in Damascus with its yard-long model of a Russian T-54 tank and flew to the scene. His ultimatum: Unless the rebels surrendered their arms and handed over 19 suspected rebel leaders-mostly from Hama's big landowning families-the army would attack with overwhelming force. Said Hafez: "You have until dawn to decide...
During the night, Hafez moved up additional units, including T-54s. Next morning, the tank columns and armored infantry broke through the barricades and drove the rebels into last-ditch positions in the rabbit warrens of the old city and in the Sultan Mosque. Tanks and artillery hammered at the mosque for an hour, and shells brought the 60-ft. minaret, together with a rebel machine-gun nest, crashing down...
Chesty Manikins. Actually, the plane, which moved under its own power with its nose wheel locked to a 4,000-ft. rail, reached greater speed than expected, careened far past the anticipated wreck site. The fire, too, was not anticipated, since the DC-7's main fuel tanks were filled with colored water to trace the post-crash distribution of inflammable fuel. An auxiliary tank carried only enough fuel for the short test run but resulted in the fire, which was quickly doused...
Diluted 35 Times. One way to cut costs by about 15% from the present $10,000 a year per patient, Engineer Lars Grimsrud told the artificial-organ enthusiasts, is to use a central, 150-gallon tank of purifying fluid instead of individual, 100-gallon tanks for each patient. In the central tank of the "monster," as the Seattle machine is called, the fluid is highly concentrated, and the machine dilutes it with as much as 35 times its own volume of water to get the right mixture for each patient. Patients still have personalized equipment at their bedsides: pumps...